Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Williams-Sonoma, Inc., 340 Middlesex Center Blvd., MONROE TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY 08831
on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a forklift. The employee's thumb was caught between the forklift and a storage rack, and was lacerated and fractured.
HospitalizedFinger(s), fingernail(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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